Loose Records and Not The Same Old Blues Crap are delighted to announce the first Nashville Babylon of 2008 at The Luminaire  on Friday 25 January with Southern Tenant Folk Union, Indigo Moss, Grantura and Laura Stark. Again, Nashville Babylon stretches the country genre to breaking point .......

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Southern Tenant Folk Union

 

Formed by Belfast born five-string banjo player Pat McGarvey and taking their name from the ground breaking multi-racial union of sharecroppers and non-landowning tenant farmers founded in Arkansas in the 1930’s, the Southern Tenant Folk Union are an explosive  London based folk and bluegrass outfit.

Writing and performing their own unique brand of Old-Time, Bluegrass, Gospel and Celtic Folk, Southern Tenant Folk Union appropriate the themes, ideas and metaphors from traditional folk songs and 20th century Americana music to document and reflect modern life through styles popularised by musicians such as The Carter Family, The Stanley Brothers and even Dillard & Clark.

"Bar hopping ballads stuffed with fiddles and banjos." Uncut Magazine
 
"This work deserves to escape the niche into which it has been born as it is a piece which contains both soul and beauty." Americana-UK
 

Web:  www.myspace.com/southerntenantfolkunion & www.southerntenantfolkunion.com